The signing came with the trade, ie a verbal agreement for max, or he goes elsewhere for max. Team knew what it was getting into. So it's either we regret going the cp3 direction or not, can't have bit of both
I'm not regretting. We took our chances and we lost. But at least we went after it. Now it is time to pay the price for the gamble.
Giannis won't resign there. Milwaukee is a very racist city and he's been surprisingly candid about this.
Paul wasn't his best this season but he did bring it to game 6. Harden and Paul weren't the reason we lost. We lost because Curry and Thompson played better, and had better support from their role players.
A diminishing CP3 and his ridiculous contract is going to be an albatross to future Rockets personnel needs. In retrospect, we’d been better off with keeping the players we traded for him.
Buy a vowel, TrumpTrash. Here's Peter Feigin, owner of the Bucks: “Very bluntly, Milwaukee is the most segregated, racist place I’ve ever experienced in my life. It just is a place that is antiquated. It is in desperate need of repair and has happened for a long, long time.”
Hindsight is 20/20. Lou/Montrez/Bev looked great this playoffs and cp3 didn't, but having those pieces, we lost to the spurs without Kawhi. Did they magically get better? I don't know, maybe some, but I think they were just in better spots to utilize their strengths. I grew tired of watching bev just hand the ball off to James and sit in the corner (like of like Rafer to tmac did), so it baffles me that we make cp3 do the same thing. Lou williams didn't fit in with Eric Gordon at the same time ... but ya if we had him as our 6th man now that EG is a starter, it would be nice. Montrez barely got playing time with us and I think we had a cheaper version of him in Faried, who never played a minute in the warriors series.
But in all honesty, I think our best shot at having 2 legitimate stars was last year, and most of us can agree that if paul didn't go down last year, we had an even better shot than this year ... somehow. Was it worth it to make the trade for going all-in for one year? I think so. It sucks that it went down the way it did and no one here can really justify what we paid cp3 to resign, but last year's team was the best rockets' team we've seen since we won the whole thing imo. And a lot of that had to do with the guy we traded 3 legit role players for. Last year's team was amazing.
If you really hated Trump, you wouldn't write his name in this basketball forum. Step back and realize you're trying to turn a thread about Chris Paul's trade into racism. His comment about Milwaukee being liberal was stupid and irrelevant, yet correct. And you responded with unwarranted ad hominem. We all like posting on Clutchfans because this kind of Twitter-quality political hijacking doesn't happen here. I'm still OK with the Chris Paul trade because the value of those other pieces wouldn't have helped us move the needle. Lou didn't coexist well with Gordon here and we could not afford another defensive weak link. Montrezl has evolved to be a great player but Faried was 3/4 of Montrezl and we didn't even play him in the series. Paul got us the 2018 series we needed, and fate decided that he should get injured. What let us down was awful play by Capela, a lack of a second PF/C (which we've been yelling for for two years now) and Tucker being undersized for rebounds. Tucker has all the heart but if he was 6'9 he'd have 25 rebounds per game. The Chris Paul contract hurts a lot more than the Chris Paul trade just because it ruins our ability to balance out the frontcourt with our great backcourt. I'm mostly interested to see what people think Hartenstein's trajectory will be. I just don't think you can teach foot speed, so I don't know if he'll ever survive in the NBA.
This is very overlooked. He was a very poor fit with that team. He definitely would not have resigned here like he did with the clips.
I've never liked Chris Paul but I don't regret the Rockets trading for him even though I do sometimes drop and shake my head side to side when rooting for him.
It was a mistake to start with. Too much for too little. We traded a whole team for one player. Plus we traded younger players for an older player. Harrell has turned out to be a beast, a kind of Draymond Green type of player.
